From owner-freebsd-stable Sat Sep 2 9:59:15 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from scientia.demon.co.uk (scientia.demon.co.uk [212.228.14.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3A9C237B42C for ; Sat, 2 Sep 2000 09:59:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from magnesium.scientia.demon.co.uk ([192.168.91.34] ident=root) by scientia.demon.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 3.16 #1) id 13VG3M-000BjX-00; Sat, 02 Sep 2000 17:22:00 +0100 Received: (from ben@localhost) by magnesium.scientia.demon.co.uk (8.9.3/8.9.3) id RAA43522; Sat, 2 Sep 2000 17:22:00 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from ben) Date: Sat, 2 Sep 2000 17:21:59 +0100 From: Ben Smithurst To: Fred Gilham Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: tail -f over NFS in -stable Message-ID: <20000902172159.B43451@magnesium.scientia.demon.co.uk> References: <200009011622.JAA29262@csla.csl.sri.com> <20000902171753.A43451@magnesium.scientia.demon.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <20000902171753.A43451@magnesium.scientia.demon.co.uk> Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Ben Smithurst wrote: > Fred Gilham wrote: > >> In 4.1-stable tail -f over NFS polls rather than blocking. > > Yes, this is acknowledged in the kqueue() manual page. Try this patch, > it seems to work for me so I might commit it if no-one objects. Scratch that, the problem is fixed in -current (kevent returns 'Operation not supported' for an NFS), so you'll just have to wait until that bit of code is MFC'd. The patch will work as a temporary fix for you though. -- Ben Smithurst / ben@FreeBSD.org / PGP: 0x99392F7D To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message